Next, the Jaguars and Patriots were playing in the “early window” of Championship Sunday, meaning there was less audience around/watching TV Sunday afternoon, as opposed to the Eagles and Vikings who started at 6:45 p.m. Eastern and were in Prime Time for much of the country.

Still, the Jacksonville-New England game scored exceptionally well for CBS and they touted that this morning:

CBS will not announce the final national audience numbers until likely tomorrow morning, but the 27.3 rating in the 3-6 p.m. time slot translates to around 46 million people. That is a massive number and will be the largest audience other than the Super Bowl to watch anything on any TV channel the rest of this year.

Next, as expected, in the Jacksonville market the number was an enormous 48 rating and 70 share. That means that 70% of the television sets that were turned on in the area Sunday were watching the Jaguars battle for the Super Bowl.

Here’s an excellent breakout chart on previous ratings and Sunday’s AFC Championship Game is in line with the previous few years of “early window” games.

The lone exception is the game two years ago where the Peyton Manning led Broncos knocked off the Brady-Patriots and got the highest rating (even in an early window) of 31.8 nationally, for a Championship Game, since the Giants vs. 49ers NFC Championship battle in 2012.

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